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AMY G. REMENSNYDER
Department of History
Box N
79 Brown Street
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
(401) 863-2131
(401) 863-1040 (fax)
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
Dissertation “Remembrance of Kings Past: The Social Implications of Monastic Foundation
Legends (Aquitaine and Its Periphery, ca. 1000-1250)”
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 6ème section, Paris, France (1988-89)
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England (1983-84):
postgraduate study of History
A.B. summa cum laude in History and Literature, Harvard University (1983)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Brown University, Department of History (September 1993 to present): Professor (2014present); Associate Professor of History (1998-2014); Assistant Professor of History
(1993-1998) and Stephen Robert Assistant Professor (1995-1998)
University of California at Berkeley, Department of History (fall 1998): Visiting Associate
Professor
University of Pittsburgh, Department of History (January 1992-May 1993): tenure-track
Assistant Professor of History
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2014).
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Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice, co-edited with Celia
Chazelle, Simon Doubleday and Felice Lifshitz (London: Routledge, 2011);
Japanese translation (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten Co. Ltd, 2014).
Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1995).
ARTICLES
“Coming Together and Coming Apart: The Entangling and Disentangling of Islam and
Christianity in the Churches of High Medieval Iberia,” Das Mittelalter (2016) (in press).
“Warrior and Diplomat: Mary between Islam and Christianity,” in Picturing Mary: Woman,
Mother, Idea (An Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts), ed. Elizabeth
Lynch (New York: Scala, 2014), pp. 38-49.
“The Boundaries of Christendom and Islam,” in The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Christianity,
ed. John Arnold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 93-113.
“Meeting the Challenge of Mary: Review Essay,” Journal of Women’s History 25 (2013): 195206.
“Beyond Muslim and Christian: The Moriscos’ Marian Scriptures,” Journal of Medieval and
Early Modern Studies 41 (2011): 545-576.
“Torture and Truth: Torquemada’s Ghost,” in Why the Middle Ages Matter, eds. Celia Chazelle,
Simon Doubleday, Felice Lifshitz and Amy Remensnyder (London: Routledge, 2011),
pp. 154-168.
“Between History and Literature: Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot and Marie de France’s Lais,” in
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Essays in Honor of Robert Brentano and His
Survey of Medieval Europe, ed. Jason Glenn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2011), pp. 203-216.
“The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María,” in The Middle Ages in Texts
and Texture: Essays in Honor of Robert Brentano and His Survey of Medieval Europe,
ed. Jason Glenn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 285-298.
“Christian Captives, Muslim Maidens, and Mary,” Speculum 82 (2007): 642-677.
“Marian Monarchy in Thirteenth-Century Castile,” in The Experience of Power in Medieval
Europe, 950-1350, ed. Robert Berkhofer, Alan Cooper, and Adam Kosto (Farnham, UK:
Ashgate Press, 2005), pp. 247-264.
“Croyance et communauté: La mémoire des origines des abbayes bénédictines,” Mélanges de
l’Ecole Française de Rome 115 (2003): 141-154.
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“Topographies of Memory: Center and Periphery in High Medieval France,” in Medieval
Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography, ed. Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried,
Patrick Geary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 193-214.
“The Colonization of Sacred Architecture: The Virgin Mary, Mosques, and Temples in Medieval
Spain and Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico,” in Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts:
Religious Expression and Social Meaning in the Middle Ages, ed. Sharon Farmer and
Barbara Rosenwein (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), pp. 189-219.
“Qui a peur de l’an mil? Un débat électronique aux approches de l’an 2000,” (with Patrick
Geary, Richard Landes, and Timothy Reuter), ed. Barbara Rosenwein, Médiévales 37
(1999): 15-55.
“Legendary Treasure at Conques: Reliquaries and Imaginative Memory,” Speculum 71 (1996):
884-906.
“Pollution, Purity and Peace: An Aspect of Social Reform Between the Late Tenth Century and
1076,” in The Peace of God: Social Violence and the Religious Response in France
Around the Year 1000, ed. Thomas Head and Richard Landes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1992), pp. 280-307.
“Un problème de cultures ou de culture? La statue-reliquaire et les joca de Sainte Foy de
Conques dans le Liber miraculorum de Bernard d’Angers,” Cahiers de Civilisation
Médiévale 33 (1990): 351-379.
[Winner, Van Courtland Elliott Prize for best first article in the field of medieval studies
from the Medieval Academy of America, 1992].
Translation from the French of E. Magnou-Nortier, “The Enemies of the Peace: Reflections on
a Vocabulary (Sixth Through Eleventh Century),” in The Peace of God: Social Violence
and the Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000, ed. Thomas Head and
Richard Landes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), pp. 58-79.
PUBLICATIONS IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Scholarly Consultant for collaborative project: “Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern
Technology: New Windows on the Medieval World” (funded by a Materials
Development Grant, Special Opportunity: Teaching with Technology, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1998-2000). Wrote historical commentaries on 10
medieval Spanish poems for CD-ROMs. Published in 2001.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Thomas F. Head: Obituary,” Catholic Historical Review 101 (2015).
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
BOOK PROJECTS
An Island of Interfaith Trust in a Sea of Danger (a study of the way that medieval and early
modern Muslim and Christian sailors made the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa into
an interfaith refuge during centuries of warfare between the two faiths)
Fear on the Frontier: Life in a Medieval Borderland (a microhistory based on archival
documents and focusing on the network of social, sexual, cultural, economic, and military
relations that, in the fifteenth century, bound the Granadan Muslim town of Vera together
with its Christian neighbor immediately across the frontier in Castile, Lorca)
A Global History of Captivity (a synthetic history of captivity and its relation to structures of
power from antiquity to the present).
ARTICLES
“King Ferdinand’s Sword” (essay about how the sword of King Ferdinand III of Castile [d.
1252] became a secular relic and a central feature of civic ritual in late medieval and
early modern Seville)
“Mary, Star of the Mediterranean: “Ships, Sailors, Storms and Shrines” (essay about how Mary
become the pre-eminent maritime saint of the high medieval Mediterranean, embodying
this sea’s characteristic physical and religious connectivities and disjunctures).
“Medieval New Mexico” (essay about the important role that concepts of the medieval and the
Middle Ages have played in ethnic politics among self-identified Hispanos, Anglos and
Pueblos)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
EXTERNAL
Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, calendar year
2009 (70,000 Euros)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2002–2003 ($30,000)
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2001–2002 ($40,000)
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Fellowship at School of Historical Studies (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ), 19971998 ($26,500)
Mellon Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities, 1985-1987, 1990-1991 (Woodrow
Wilson Foundation)
Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1987-89 (University of California, Berkeley)
BROWN
Faculty Fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Public Humanities (2015-16) ($1,500)
Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (summer 2013)
Fellowship from the Engaged Scholars Initiative (Swearer Center, 2011-2012) ($4,000)
Salomon Research Grant, 2001-3 ($10,000)
Course Development Grant, 1999-2000 ($3,000)
Wayland Collegium Group Study Grant, 1996-1997 ($2,000)
Wriston Course Development Grant, 1996-1997 ($3,000)
Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (fall 1994)
Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (summer 1994)
PRIZES AND HONORS
Stephen Robert Assistant Professor, July 1995-July 1998 (Brown University)
William G. McLoughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences 1995-96 (Brown
University)
Van Courtland Elliott Prize 1992 for best first article in the field of medieval studies: “Un
problème de cultures ou de culture?” (Medieval Academy of America)
Sophia Freund Prize 1983 for highest GPA in graduating class (Harvard University)
Thomas Hoopes Prize 1983 for one of twenty best undergraduate senior theses (Harvard
University)
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Phi Beta Kappa 1982
Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature 1982 and 1983 (Harvard University)
Lucy Paton Prize 1982 and 1983 (Harvard University)
INVITED LECTURES, KEYNOTES, and SEMINARS
“Modern Refugees, Pre-Modern Pirates, and Muslim-Christian Trust on the Island of
Lampedusa,” Southern Connecticut State University Medieval Conference Lecture Series
(December, 2015)
“The Medieval Meaning of Unicorns and Other Mythic Animals,” John Hay Library, Brown
University (March 2015)
“Unexpected Mary,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (February 2015)
“Goya’s Ghosts: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia,” Boston
Museum of the Fine Arts (October, 2014)
“The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old World and the New,” Faculty Keynote at the
Medieval Studies Graduate Student Colloquium (Cornell University, February 2013)
“La Conquistadora: A Tale of Two Seas, the Virgin Mary, Muslims, Christians, Jews and
Indians,” annual Riggsby Lecture in Mediterranean History (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville; October 2012)
“Making Your Work Matter,” Faculty Keynote at Theories in Action conference (Brown
University, April 2012)
“The Virgin Mary in the Medieval Mediterranean and Colonial Mexico,” University of Notre
Dame (April 2012); Hamilton College (April 2012)
“Our Lady of Conquest: The Virgin Mary, Christians, Muslims, Jews and Indians in the PreModern Spanish World,” University of York, UK (December 2011) and University of
Exeter, UK (December 2011)
“Religious Expansion, Translocation and the Problem of the Religious Landscape,” Käte
Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany (November 2009)
“The Virgin Mary and the Expansion of Spanish Christianity in the Old and New Worlds,” Käte
Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany (May 2009)
“A View from the Tower: Public Work and Disciplinary Perspectives,” lunch series sponsored
by the Swearer Center, Brown University (December, 2008)
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“A Medieval Story from New Mexico: Santa Fe’s Conquering Virgin,” the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque (April 2008).
“Beginner’s Mind,” faculty address at Brown University’s Mid-Year Completion Celebration
(December 2005)
“Our Lady of Colonization,” at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (December 2003)
“The Virgin Mary as an Icon of Conquest and Conversion,” at New Mexico State University
(September 2003)
“New Directions in the Study of Sanctity in the High Middle Ages” keynote at symposium on
hagiography (NIAS, The Netherlands, April 2002)
“The Virgin Mary and the Borderlands of Religious Identity in Medieval Spain and Colonial
Mexico” (New York University, March 2001)
“The Virgin Mary and Conversion in Medieval Spain and Colonial Mexico” (Shelby Cullom
Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, February 2001)
“Passion, Dispassion, and the Scholar” at Brown University Humanities Institute (May, 1999)
“The Virgin of Violence: Mary and Conquest in Medieval Spain and Early Spanish America”
(University of California, Santa Barbara, December 1998)
“The Virgin Mary and Martial Masculinity during the Reconquest” (University of California at
Berkeley, Medieval Studies, November 1998)
“The Virgin Mary and the Conversion of Sacred Space on Spanish Frontiers (ca. 1000-ca.
1550)” (Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies Workshop, March
1998)
“Our Lady of Aggression: The Virgin Mary and Conquest in Medieval Spain and Colonial Latin
America” (Mount Holyoke College, March 1998)
“La Conquistadora: The Virgin and the Reconquista” (University of California at Berkeley,
Medieval Studies, March 1996)
“Un problème de cultures ou de cultures? La statue-reliquaire et les joca de sainte Foy de
Conques” at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes, 4ème section, Paris (April 1989)
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SYMPOSIUM PAPERS (INVITED)
“The Island of Lampedusa, Interfaith Trust, and the Geography of the Inbetween,” at symposium
sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at
Princeton University (May 2015)
“Mary, Star of the Mediterranean,” at symposium at the German Historical Institute, Rome, Italy
(March 2015)
“Creating Islands of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War,” at symposium at the Käte Hamburger
Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany (February 2014).
“Muslims in Christian Hagiography, Christians in Jewish Anti-Hagiography: Entanglement as
Refinement, Redirection and Rejection,” at symposium at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg,
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany (November 2013)
“Coming Together and Coming Apart: The Entangling and Disentangling of Islam and
Christianity in the Churches of High Medieval Iberia,” at symposium at the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany (April 2013)
“Mary as Mother of Conversion in the Old and New Worlds,” at the New England Medieval
Conference (University of Connecticut, 2010)
“From Marian Miracle to Lay Evangelists: Christianization in the Name of the Virgin in the Old
And New Worlds,” at symposium at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität,
Bochum, Germany (July 2009)
“Cervantes and Mary,” at symposium on Cervantes at Providence College (May 2005)
“Christian Captives, Muslim Maidens, and Mary,” at symposium at NYU on the Virgin Mary
(April 2005).
“Why Mary? The Virgin, the Conquistador, and the Friar,” at symposium “New Directions In
Medieval History” at Harvard University (October 2003).
“The Virgin Mary and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Pre-Modern Spanish World,” at
symposium on the Virgin Mary at Fordham University (March 2003).
“Croyance et communauté: La mémoire des origines des abbayes bénédictines” at symposium
“La mémoire des origines” (Ecole Française de Rome, Rome, June 2002)
“The Virgin Mary and the Spiritual Politics of Borders and Borderlands” at symposium on
medieval Spain (Rice University, April 2000).
“The Cantigas de Santa María of Alfonso X of Castile-León” session in NEH funded seminar
series. “New Windows on the Medieval World” (Mount Holyoke College, March 1999).
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“La Vierge Marie at la violence militaire pendant la Reconquête” at symposium “Identidad y
representación de la frontera en la España medieval (ss. XI-XIV) (Casa de Velázquez,
Madrid, December 1998).
“The Virgin of Violence: Mary and Conquest in Medieval Spain and Early Spanish America” at
Smithsonian symposium on Image of Devotion, Image of Identity: The Virgin Mary in
the Americas (San Antonio, May 1998).
“The Virgin Mary and Martial Masculinity during the Reconquest” at symposium on Medieval
and Early-Modern Spain (Princeton, April 1998).
“Origins and Imagination: Monastic Memories” at symposium on Ritual, Erinnerung,
Geschichtsschreibung: Der Abstraktionsprozess historischer Erinnerung im Mittelalter
(German Historical Institute, Heidelberg, September 1996)
“Hidden Contents, New Meanings: Reliquaries and Imaginative Memory” at symposium on
Eleventh-Century Europe (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, June
1994)
“Monuments Made by Memory: Royal Reliquaries” at symposium on the Craft of Empire and
the Powers of Art: Medieval Court Culture, East and West (University of Washington,
Center for the Humanities, March 1994)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Panelist on round table at symposium “Body Trouble: The Ambivalence of Sex, Gender and
Desire in religious Discourse” sponsored by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Santo Domingo
de la Calzada, Spain) (March, 2014)
Panelist for “Translating Cultures: Oral Translations in Iberia, 1284-1519,” University of York,
UK (December 2011)
Panelist for “The Culture and Practice of Engaged Scholarship: A Case Study” at the annual
meeting of The Association of American Colleges and Universities (Providence RI,
October 2011)
“Why the Middle Ages Matter,” co-presenter at the Medieval Studies Seminar, Columbia
University (April 2011)
“Why We Don’t Engage and Why We Should,” at roundtable “The Ethical and Political
Responsibilities of Medievalists: Iberia and Beyond” sponsored by the Medieval and
Renaissance Center, New York University (December, 2008)
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“Torture and Truth: A Lesson from the High Middle Ages,” at the annual meeting of the
American Historical Society (Washington DC, January 2008)
“For Santiago and Holy Mary: Gender and the Saintly Patrons of Battle in Reconquest Spain” at
the New England Medieval Conference (Yale University, October 2000).
Co-organizer of and participant in “Defining and Crossing Borders in Spain: A Roundtable
Discussion of Current Approaches to Multi-Cultural Medieval Iberia” at the annual
meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Austin, April 2000)
“The Virgin Mary and Conversion in Medieval Iberia” at the annual meeting of the American
Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City (November, 1997)
“Mary and Mosques: The Conversion of Sacred Space on the Medieval Spanish Frontier” at the
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (July 1997)
Participant in “Cultural Mutations: A Round Table” at conference “The Apocalyptic Year 1000:
History and Historiography” (Boston University, November, 1996)
Chair of panel “The Scholar Confronts Cultural Disjunction” at the New England Medieval
Conference (October, 1996)
“Legendary Treasure: Charlemagne’s Alphabet and Christ’s Foreskin” at the 28th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 1993)
“Epics, Royal Relics and the Memory of Charlemagne in Southern France: The Political
Periphery and the Sanctification of the Symbolic Center” at joint meeting of The
Medieval Academy of America and The Medieval Association of the Pacific (April 1993)
“Bernard of Angers and the Liber miraculorum Sancte Fidis: Lay and Clerical Perception of
Miracles” at meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (March, 1987)
BOOK REVIEWS
Joseph Shatzmiller, Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013). Forthcoming in Speculum.
Cynthia Robinson, Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ,
Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Penn State University
Press: University Park, PA, 2013). Forthcoming in The Medieval Review.
Emma Gatland, Women from the Golden Legend: Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian
Sanctoral (Woodbridge GB: Tamesis, 2011). Speculum (2015).
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Marvine Howe, Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia's New Muslims (Hurst and Company: London,
2012. In Journal of Levantine Studies (2013).
Joseph F. O’Callaghan, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain (University of Pennsylvania
Press: Philadelphia, 2003). In Speculum (2004).
Carolyn Walker Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York: Zone Books: 2001). In
Speculum (2002).
Richard C. Trexler, The Journey of the Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian Story
(Princeton University Press, 1997). In Speculum (2001).
Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn, Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles
of Sainte Foy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). In The Catholic Historical
Review (2001).
Jennifer R. Goodman, Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 (Boydell Press: Woodbridge,
England, 1998). In Speculum (2001).
Gabriela Signori, Maria zwischen Kathedrale, Kloster und Welt: Hagiographische und
historiographische Annäherungen an eine hochmittelalterliche Wunderpredigt (Jan
Thorbeke Verlag; Sigmaringen, 1995). In Speculum (1999).
Martha G. Newman, The Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform,
1098-1180 (Stanford University Press: Stanford, 1996). In American Historical Review.
Dyan Elliott, Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock (Princeton University
Press: Princeton, 1993). In Societá e Storia 73:652-54.
Sheila Bonde, Fortress-Churches of Languedoc: Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the
High Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1994). In The Catholic
Historical Review (1996): 540-42.
Megan McLaughlin, Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France
(Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 1994). In American Historical Review 101
(1996): 165-66.
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose in Thirteenth-Century
France (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1993). In Societá e Storia 68: 415-18.
TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
“Blood, Bones and Bodies: Medieval Perspectives”
“The Chivalrous Society and the Monastic World (ca. 1000 - ca. 1250)”
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“Crusaders and Cathedrals, Deviance and Dominance: Europe in the High Middle Ages”
“Europe from Rome to the Eighteenth Century”
“From Rome to the Year 1000: The Early Middle Ages”
“Gender and Sexuality in the High Middle Ages
“The Holy Grail and the Historian’s Quest for the Truth”
“Living Together: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Medieval Iberia”
“Locked Up: A Global History of Prison and Captivity”
"Medieval Perspectives"
“Sex, Power, God: A Medieval Perspective”
GRADUATE SEMINARS
“Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Iberia”
“The Theory and Practice of History”
“Core Readings in Medieval History”
“New Perspectives on Medieval History”
“Passion, Dispassion, and the Scholar: Non-traditional Modes of Writing History”
“The Sacred, Saints, and Society”
“Sanctity and Virginity in the Middle Ages”
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PROFESSION AT LARGE
Member, Editorial Board of Al-Māsaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (2016-present)
Member, Humanities Action Lab on Incarceration (The New School, 2015-16)
Member, Editorial Board of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2007-2010)
Councilor, Medieval Academy of America (2002-2004)
Member of Committee on Professional Development of the Medieval Academy of America
(2001-2003)
Member of the Steering Committee of the New England Medieval Conference (2000-2002)
Reviewed book and article manuscripts for: The American Historical Review; Blackwell’s Press;
Church History; Duke University Press; Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies;
Oxford University Press; Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Medieval Feminist Forum;
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies; University of Chicago Press; University of
Pennsylvania Press.
Tenure and promotion reviews at: George Mason University; Northern Illinois University;
Queen’s University; University of Colorado at Boulder; University of Michigan at Ann
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Arbor; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of San Francisco;
University of South Carolina; University of Southern California; Wesleyan University.
Evaluator of grant applications for: the National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowships for
University Professors; the National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowships in the
Division of Preservation and Access; the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council.
BROWN UNIVERSITY (SELECTED)
Director, BHEPP (Brown History Education Prison Project), 2012-present
Director, The Program in Medieval Studies, Brown University (2010-2012)
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Brown University (2003-2006)
Chair, search committee for position in Early Medieval Mediterranean History
Chair, search committee for position in Early Modern European History
Chair, two tenure committees
Freshman and sophomore advisor
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America
Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
LANGUAGES
French
German
Italian
Latin
Spanish